I know DX12 has Direct Storage, and VK has RTX IO, but does Vulkan have anything to actually not require a specific GPU vendor and require tedious implementation per-vendor which not all vendors natively have extensions for
#Can I have info on how GPU-based decompression is done in Vulkan
jade dew
little flame
everything, even core features requires "tedious implementation per-vendor"
jade dew
bruh
can u atleast tell me other extensions for VK that will allow u to do it on diff vendors
idk of other ways to do it in Vulkan without RTX IO
or if there are any
little flame
there is technically one but it is yet to be seen on non nvidia iirc
jade dew
🙁
so basically for the time being, we're stuck using slow asset loading on Vulkan non-NVIDIA by using the CPU to decompress data
little flame
jade dew
? what is this
little flame
what you're asking for
jade dew
danke
little flame
but afaik nvidia has it implemented atm, idk about others
jade dew
VK_EXT is suppourted by AMD, Intel and NVIDIA, so thats all that matters
little flame
no
little flame
VK_KHR means "pretty please with sprinkles try to support it"
jade dew
atleast for now
little flame
but i looked it up, all three of the major vendors do suppourt it
you cannot say that for every VK_EXT
jade dew
i meant specifically for VK_EXT for decompression
also isn't VK_KHR the only thing that makes Vulkan actually not die on windows, cuse u need KHR to apply a swapchain to hwnd
oh nvm, apparently only NVIDIA suppourts mem decompression 🙁
vulkan is hard compared to DX12
little flame
also isn't VK_KHR the only thing that makes Vulkan actually not die on windows, ...
you cannot make such a statement, yes you need the swapchain extensions to draw to a window, no KHR here doesn't mean much